Organize and search

Create folders

Open Mail, then from the menu bar at the top of your screen, choose Mailbox > New Mailbox.

Choose the location for the Mailbox in the dialog that appears:

Choose your email service (like iCloud) to access your Mailbox on your other devices, such as an iPhone signed into the same email account.

Choose On My Mac to access your Mailbox only on your Mac.

Name the mailbox and click OK.

If you don't see the mailboxes sidebar, choose View > Show Mailbox List. To show or hide mailboxes from an email account, move your pointer over a section in the sidebar and click Show or Hide.

Sort your emails

To move a message from your Inbox to a mailbox:

Drag the message onto a mailbox in the sidebar.

In macOS Mojave, you can select the message, then click the Move button in the Mail toolbar to file the message into the suggested mailbox. Mail makes mailbox suggestions based on where you've filed similar messages in the past, so suggestions get better the more you file your messages.

Learn more

1. All devices signed into iCloud with the same Apple ID share contacts. Contacts addressed in previous messages sent and received on those devices are also included. To control this feature, turn Contacts on or off for iCloud. On Mac, go to System Preferences > iCloud. On iOS devices, go to Settings, tap your name at the top of the screen, then tap iCloud.

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